You cannot quote what was said YET you have flown to the conclusion that the AP headline is your talking point.
I would not have you deliver messages to the front in times of war, nor would I want you beside me in a fox hole.
Don’t you get it? The headline quotes will be all 95% of folks will EVER SEE!
You should know this. Newt should know this. His advisors should know this. And your fox hole comment is not a good analogy. In a fox hole, it’s all about protecting your buddy whether he (she) is right or wrong or not.
FR is not a fox hole. I am not in a fox hole. My support for Newt, or whoever, is shallow and meaningless if I ignore it when Newt himself violates my principles. I still support him. His statement is much better than Ricks, but his HEADLINES ARE ALMOST AS STINKY AS RICKS - and that is my point.
That is my ONLY point.
I will also add this. Your efforts to flesh out what was said and to point out that Newt’s statement on this was far stronger than Rick’s is important and I appreciate it.
Your efforts to pull the great quotes and make them available is much appreciated. And you are right.
But that does not make my point invalid. We are both right. What Newt said, in context, is rather different from what Rick said. You are right.
What Newt’s headlines will be, sadly, are rather similar to the headlines Rick generated. I am right too. Your point and my point are different, but they are not mutually exclusive.